Chapter 7 – Of magic and power
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When I came around it was daylight, from the pile of letters on my nightstand from Daphne I had been out for weeks. So what do the Flamel's do? They come in with potions and both feed them down my dry mouth. Not cool water, not sweet tea, no, nasty potions and they told me not to do anything or I would receive the wrath of Merlin and Penny. They did say that they had written to Daphne and said that it was their fault and I would write when I could. Question to me, did they sign the letters to Daphne or just send them anonymously? I had no other thoughts as I faded back to darkness.
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I soon awoke and they stuffed another potion down my gullet. They then helped me up and almost dragged my limp body to breakfast. My whole day brightened into a spectacular morning. There sat Daphne, not Tracey, only Daphne and they dumped me next to Daphne.
"I see you have been stepping out on me Harry," she grinned and my day was made.
"Yes I am in love with my potions and am going to kill the Flamels!" was my retort.
"Now Harry dear until you are strong enough to get to Gringotts Daphne will be here to nurse you back to health." Penny said and I now knew I was in heaven.
After Daphne stopped feeding me I was ready to start yelling. "What in the hell have you done to me?"
Penny raised her hand before I got onto a good rant. "Harry dear we are sorry but it is better if you don't know just yet. We feel that you would never want to know and then be disappointed. So we did this for you and if it works fine, if not we are sorry but we will not get your hopes up…" I interrupted Penny.
"Look I know you all are trying to help and thank you but this is ridicules, the only thing you could try and help me with is my magic and that's gone so…"From the looks from everyone I was basically right.
"You mean you are trying to restore my magic?" I would shout but I was just a little weak.
"That's it Harry!" smiled Nick.
"I told you he wasn't that slow." Daphne stated.
"Harry first off you must not even think about magic or doing any, it this has worked you could level this house with a thought. When you are stronger we will go to Gringotts and have you tested and I think you will be happy with the results."
"So you fixed my magic?"
"No and No! The first series of potions were for your health. You have been abused and it shows in your height, weight even your bone strength. After we got you beefed up a bit and healthy we tried to bypass magic to get to your magical core." If you have two weeks I could give you an overview of what we hoped to accomplish.
"Daphne how did you get here, alone, vulnerable and within my clutches" I gave the old sexy eyebrow wiggle which did mean much in my condition.
"The Flamels came and impressed my parents that I could receive a little extra training so they fell all over themselves to say yes. The main reason is to be your instructor and catch you up in all your subjects at Hogwarts" Daphne grinned. "My parent even went as far as getting me out of Hogwarts stating an illness in the family."
"See Harry what a few years of experience will do to influence people?" Penny smirked.
"Yes very influential you two are!"
They were very smart also; with Daphne here a few pecks on the cheek made me move and a kiss made me do what I was told. My whole life was to get my hands on Daphne. Teenage hormones and my imagination was enough to move mountains and keep my chase of Daphne alive and well. Although I still grumbled that she made me read all the text books and more. The rewards were just worth it.
There were a few more potions that I was told to drink but those were made by Nick. Some of the things he added to his potions made no sense to me and in some cases how did he make some of the things a liquid?
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"SharpTooth its great to see you how's the family?" I asked as we walked into his office.
"The family is doing fine, it's the wife that a pain in the axe. I see your family is expanding."
"Yes of course you know the Flamel's and this is Daphne Greengrass who we will be discussing after the Flamel's have their way."
"Yes our testing facilities. Please follow me down into the caverns if you will." SharpTooth seemed a bit anxious.
Nick started the explanation, "Harry magic comes from your core and is channeled threw streams to your hand. The hand is the expected and normal place we use but in theory you could use your toe as a focus point. Now how large these streams are is how powerful a wizard you may be, these rivers are normally channeled to your hand. Then comes the wand to focus or wand-less if one is powerful. Your core is still there but magic has shut down your streams. How it was shut down Merlin only knows. What we have attempted to do is make a new path that runs next to your old path or stream. Look at it like a wire from your core to your hand. If this works you could have a small wire or a large wire. In other words you may be able to do a weak spell or a strong spell to your hand or your toe at least that was the plan. Our knowledge on this is guess work so it's now up to SharpTooth to see how far we got."
"In your many trips to Gringotts we have measured you in many ways and one was your core which you still have, a big one I might add. We like Nick have no idea how your paths were shut down. We are here today to see if his little experiment has worked. First this is hard bed rock and we want to put a tunnel over there where the X is drawn so done worry about scratching the wall. Please start small and easy and we will build up later." Penny then took over.
"Harry first feel your core and feed a small amount up to your hand and out your finger towards the X. Now this is like all spells you must focus. Follow the magic to the X and imagine the results you want. So give it a try."
Oh this was going to be fun I thought. So I did what I was told and dam if I didn't feel something creep up to my hand and nothing. I tried the gouging spell again and the something crept up to my hand and something sparked or fizzled at the end of my finger. While everyone else was happy with the results I was getting frustrated with my magic and that stupid wall. I just wanted to reach out and grab that stupid X and crush it in my hand. That is when it got noisy and then very quiet in the cavern. Daphne was pushing my jaw upward to close my mouth and she gave me a peck on the cheek. The wall looked like a hand had reached in, grabbed the X and crushed it to powder. This was way too easy. Next I thought. I wanted a one foot square of rock from that wall and I wanted in front of me now. There floating was the rock which I now wanted to be a one foot high statue of SharpTooth. A rock statue was not right so I made it gold as the Goblins love gold. I then floated it into SharpTooth's hands and I just said, "Well it looks like the potions worked."
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SharpTooth's office Gringotts:
"We have created a monster!" Was the first thing said in the office by Nick.
"But a very cute monster isn't he Penny?" Daphne giggled.
I was going to reply but I figured that all that would come out was sputtering, a monster?
"We are joking Harry but you now have more problems and a lot of work ahead of you." Nick sighed. "You will have to tone it down on what you display or the Ministry will have you in for experiments. I mean experiments where they cut you in small pieces to find out how you work. You appear to not use paths or streams but just focus with your whole body, so there is more book learning and practice with your magic but first I think SharpTooth wants a piece of you first." Nick smiled.
"Harry are you up for some tests?" I just nodded to SharpTooth's question so he continued. "I have here the Potter House ring for you to try on and if it accepts your magic then you are emancipated and have access to your vaults."
"Then you can request a marriage contract from my parents for your lovely Daphne." Daphne purred. I suddenly realized that Nick was right, with my new magic my wish would be turned into reality. Thoughts about Daphne flashed in my mind for a second and were naughty and if I could not control myself she was going to kill me. I settled for a "Yes Dear".
I opened the box to find a gold ring which I slipped on my finger. I must sometime write down my memoirs as they will make a great sci-fi book as it always happens to me.
The ring started to glow, and then it became so bright it was hurtful to look at it. As the glow faded the ring seemed to double in size. Just as the ring glow was ending the finger next to the ring started to glow and formed another ring of gold. This was repeated until all my fingers on one hand had a golden ring, each with a different coat of arms.
"Now that is different, it appears you magic is calling out." SharpTooth stated. "I have never seen anything like that before, let's see which houses you are now the head of, Houses Potter, Gryffindore, Slytherin and Black."
I was glad that I was not the only one in shock. SharpTooth then explained that Gryffindore was an off shoot with Potter, that Slytherin was probably by conquest but Black was confusing, either he was dead or unable to continue the line.
I asked that all vaults be restricted to me alone, to start a marriage contract with the Greengrass family for Daphne and I got Daphne and myself a money sack.
We then decided to call it a day and headed to my house just down the Alley.
A few minutes later:
I should hang a sign around my neck saying "stupid". I stepped out of the bank without any disguises in place and as we were entering Knockturn Alley "It's Potter, get him."
They were neither red robed Aurors nor were they black robed Deatheaters so they must be connected to Dumbdumb.
They must have wanted me alive as they only were throwing 'Stupify', 'Incarcerous' and 'Expelliarmus'. Well the group with me had shields up in a second so it gave me a second to think, I banished them to the Great Hall at Hogwarts.
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Great Hall evening meal:
"CRACK" and two people fell to the floor.
With house elves popping in and out most took no notice except turn to see what was going on.
"Dedalus, Sturgis what happened?" a stunned Dumbledore asked before he thought.
"Its Potter, we saw Potter and he is using magic!" Sturgis shouted.
"Surly Sturgis you must be…" Dumbdumb started.
"No Sturgis is correct Potter just banished us here, he is using magic!" Dedalus shouted.
Dumbledore rose and moved his ancient arse to the main doors and motioned for the two to follow. Somebody was messing with his new plans and he was not happy.
Dumbledore was even more hacked off the next morning. The Dailey Profit did a great story on Harry Potter again stating his magic was back. They only had witnesses and no photo's which was lucky, Harry had not used a wand.